Hen's teeth and horse's toes
by Stephen Jay Gould, Marcel Blanc · first published 1983
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Une compilation de trente essais parus pour la plupart dans ##Natural history magazine## et articulés autour de la théorie de l'évolution. Sept parties : Des bizarreries raisonnables - Personnalités - Adaptation et évolution - Teilhard et Piltdown - Science et politique - L'extinction - Une trilogie du zèbre. L'auteur, professeur à l'Université de Harvard, a précédemment publié deux autres recueils : ##Darwin et les grandes énigmes de la vie## (1979) et ##Le pouce du panda## (1982). [SDM].
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…to my mind): "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" By Thomas S. Kuhn "The Diversity of Life" By Edward O. Wilson "The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time" by Jonathan Weiner "Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History" by Stephen Jay Gould "Life on a Young Planet" By Andrew H. Knoll "Galápagos" By Kurt Vonnegut (Fiction, but related) (I loved this book, but it's not for everyone…
on “Ask HN: What are some good general technical books for teenagers?” ↗Oh, and in 1983 Stephen J. Gould in "Hen's teeth and horse's toes" wrote the essay "Phyletic Size Decrease in Hershey Bars" about the diminishing size of Hershey bars between 1949 to 1979. Here's a link to one copy at archive.org: https://archive.org/details/hensteethhorsest00goulrich/page/...…
on “Beware of 'shrinkflation,' inflation's devious cousin” ↗…a rarity in itself), E.J. Kollar and C. Fisher reported an ingenious technique for coaxing chickens to reveal some surprising genetic flexibility retained from a distant past." -- Stephen Jay Gould, Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes Two pages of technical explanation follow, but they got chicken embryo tissue to produce teeth.
on “Discovery of collagen in fossil bone could unlock new insights into dinosaurs” ↗Stephen Jay Gould's "Phyletic Size Decrease in Hershey Bars", in "Hen's teeth and horse's toes" at https://archive.org/details/hensteethhorsest00step/page/314/... shows the size trend from the 2.0 ounces of 1960 to the the 1.2 ounce of 1980, when it was published.
on “Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes” ↗